WEATHER REPORT: “This is really strange and unusual weather we’re having. But it has nothing to do with climate change!”

Curious about what those “Climate Change deniers” are up to these days? Or want to keep yourself informed on the latest scientific news of what’s in store for our communal, one-of-a kind, dear planet Earth and its in habitants? Then you won’t want to miss this event.

On the Esplanade in Chico, sidewalks and the street disappear under water as a flash storm dumps several inches of rain in about 1 hour. Sept. 2010

“Big” Chico Creek shrinks down to a few inches deep in Bidwell Park, as seen from the Cedar Gove bridge, May 2015

On Friday, June 5th, KZFR and Butte Environmental Council will present Bill McKibben, author, honored environmental activist and climate change expert. In 2014, Bill McKibben received the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the “alternative Nobel.” He’s a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world. He also headed the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline and started the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.

The title of Mr. McKibben’s talk is “Updates from the Front Lines of the Climate Fight .”